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Morgan Parker and Nicole Sealey mine the personal and political in their poetry, both reveling in and revealing the issues at the heart of contemporary life. Parker's most recent collection, Th

Heartland politics: rather than a monolithic "flyover country," the midwestern voting public can be—as both parties learned during the last presidential election—stubbornly elusive. Who better to make that point than an

Mindfulness, self-care, and "positive thinking" are all touted as panaceas for negative emotions. But according to University of California, Berkeley, researcher Iris Mauss, if you're feeling down, the self-imposed

When it comes to race, art, and gender, Spelman College President Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD is an authority. Campbell was integral in expanding the Studio Museum in Harlem, transforming it into the country's first

Hailed by the magazine Utne Reader as a "one-woman powerhouse," the singer, rapper, and writer Dessa may be best known as a founding member of Doomtree, a collective of musicians based out of Minneapolis. No

In today's Los Angeles, housing is expensive, dining is fancy, and posh, international galleries rule the art scene. But in the 1980s and '90s, it was cheap rents, house parties, underground fashion, and a trio of Latino gay